Sci-Hub statistics and database

Is there any word about when sci hub is going to start adding new articles again? It's currently only useful as an archive of old research articles. New papers from the last year are not available. I never understood the rationale for stopping new content, though I believe it had some relation to some court case in India...but I don't understand why that was a reason to stop adding articles, and why it hasn't been restarted yet.

The publishers now encode their papers with individual identifiers, that generationP calls UUIDs on all pdf&#x27;s. That means they can trace it back to the institution(and perhaps the actual prof?) They have then sent nastygrams to threaten them with fees or loss of access to the institution - potentially serious punishment. What is needed is a way to run the papers through an OCR recognition program to create renewed text and to further process to randomly vary a large number of adjacent letter spacings. (this is called &#x27;micro kerning&#x27; and it allowed a second order of unique document recognition where the document is scanned by the journal to look for these fractional kerning gaps in the letter spacing which can lead back to the institution). I suppose a program flow could be made to OCR + random micro kerning changes - it would take time, but once set up it would be a rapid computer based document flow process. Photos&#x2F;charts could be sanitised as well, but legends etc on them would also need OCR and micro kerning adjustments. With 25 words of text, each with 6 letters, micro kerning can easily create 10,000 unique ID&#x27;s, easily enough to cope with all subscribed institutions - and that is on one chart&#x2F;photo. I suspect the subscribing institutions have acted with firm words to their profs and grad students to block this. This can easily be told to us if a few people in assorted institutions let us know if they have been read firm words about this?<p>I am not sure how Sci-hub can get past this, unless they get a good Indian court ruling and can use Indian friends to scan printed copies of journals - if they exist in this online age?

It&#x27;s interesting how sci-hub&#x27;s papers on medicine dwarf those in many other fields like comp-sci, math, and physics. I wonder if that reflects the number of papers in those fields, or if sci-hub just has a non-representative sample. If the latter, why?

Interesting. Medical field dominates research in terms of publications. Chemistry produces double the papers compared to physics, and humanities are smaller than biology but larger than physics. I wonder where machine learning papers fit in - CS or Math or both?

Alexandra Elbakyan is a titan and a saint. I couldn&#x27;t have been able to finish my research without access to papers my institution wasn&#x27;t subscribed to.

Here&#x27;s a notebook that fetches Sci-Hub mirrors from Wikidata and tests them. I also included an iOS Shortcut to add to your Share screen. When you&#x27;re on a site that Sci-Hub recognizes and you use the shortcut it will try to fetch the paper.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;observablehq.com&#x2F;@iz&#x2F;sci-hub" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;observablehq.com&#x2F;@iz&#x2F;sci-hub</a>

Did Sci-Hub start working again? Last time I checked it wasn&#x27;t adding new papers because of some legal thing going on in India.

100 TB is pretty small. I wonder if she will start torrenting it so people can back it up and share the load.

I hope more disciplines can shift the publishing culture towards the norm found in physics, where arxiv is the go to. I&#x27;m not sure why that is the case but it&#x27;s pretty great.

If only the Nobel Committee would say:- The Nobel Committee will only consider research published under an Open Source Access repository in reviewing published papers for consideration for the Nobel Prize after ~~ June 30, 2022. This would unleash a horde of hungry cats among those fat pigeons that are the paywalled journals. There would be a crying and wailing - ending with piles of feathers,(and purring cats), and researchers all over the world, and especially in the many &#x27;third world&#x27; Universities whose minds are currently held hostage to budgets and local politics. The world would gain immeasurably by this simple act!

Sci-hub is sometimes the last resort to obtain a resource that is otherwise unobtainable. But what has become of the old way of obtaining unaccessible papers: Ask the authors for a copy?<p>Sites like ResearchGate make this very easy. And often a simple email does the job, too.<p>Advantages:<p>* It is legal<p>* The author gets feedback that someone out there reads their research<p>* Making direct contact to your peers is a good thing.

What&#x27;s the most popular paper on all of scihub? By field?

i asked this question here and at many places before. why do people &quot;rely&quot; on an organization that sifts through hundreds of thousands of papers and then charge exorbitant prices for providing this service? if we use the amazon analogy, is amazon with millions of products worse than a boutique cat food seller that specializes in a specific cat food for a specific cat breed? maybe. but what about the &quot;rest&quot; of products?<p>why are our scientists made to rely on elsevier et al to sift through the junk and find for them the perfect paper instead of doing it themselves? is science now such a cutthroat quick competition that it requires you to give a company the priviledge to work for you so that you dont have to do your own due diligence?<p>in india, we have a lot of local research that is done on open databases like shodh ganga and many more. but if you have to access foreign research material, better luck your university has an agreement with elsevier and others to pay them millions for a login. the alternative, go to scihub and find what you need.<p>i understand the whole quality&#x2F;delivery debate but doesnt the average user already know who the big players in the specific domain are and who are trusted? or you want discoverability at the hands of a &quot;trusted third party&quot; without doing the legwork yourself.<p>then at the other end you have non-academics like me. I might have heard of a research paper in some article and i cannot read it without paying an arm and a leg. why? if we use the whole ebook&#x2F;book argument that compensation is commensurate to the sales so more popular book means more money to the author but here authors arent compensated but elsevier so why should i pay elsevier? because they filtered through 1000 papers to provide 10 and for that privilege, they require unlimited royalty for ever? why?

It&#x27;s shame that US or EU don&#x27;t run open DB for journals that every university should be able to publish as back-up. Also they could create some tools to make research more productive that&#x27;s free to use.<p>That we have to rely on single person effort that&#x27;s risking their freedom to do so is fucking insane.

It looks like the torrents have all subjects. Anybody aware if there are torrents only for Math or Comp.sci ?

Anyone notice the logo update? The key loop has been exchanged for a hammer and sickle.

Alexandra should get the Nobel prize.

Remember to donate to sci-hub to keep it going! Even a small donation helps and is way more than the extortionate prices we&#x27;d all have to pay without it :D

How they are able to store data without being seized?

Getting 403 Forbidden. Did my isp block it, or it this an error on their end?

How come we don&#x27;t have extensive software for helping doctor decision making by making use e.g of bayesian inference while feeding on the available superintelligence that enable those 24 millions paper? Expert systems long passed the hype curve and it&#x27;s time for them to cycle up again!

It&#x27;s kind of ironic twist of fate and disgrace that something like SciHub needs to be hosted&#x2F;served from Russia in order to avoid getting squished and destroyed by rent seekers greedy hands.